How fine is the IEEE floating-point number system?
Here is one way to see the answer.

According to molecular physics, there are approximately
3e8 molecules per meter in a gas at atmospheric
conditions -- essentially the cube root of Avogadro's
number. The circumference of the earth is 4e7 meters,
so in a circle around the earth, there are around
10^16 molecules.

In IEEE double precision arithmetic, there are 2^52
numbers between 1 and 2, which is also about 10^16.

So if we put a giant circle around the earth with a
distance coordinate ranging from 1 to 2, the spacing
of the floating-point numbers along the circle will
be about the same as the spacing of the air molecules.

Halloween this week is followed rapidly by several other holidays between
now and year 2008.

In the spirit of Gene Golub's suggestion to cover topics of interest to
the readership that mix the strictly technical with the non-technical, a
holiday custom is expressed below in terms of the rules observed by your
friendly family matrix.

Here is an expression of good will through this season from one who is
submitting at this end to you who are out there reading at your end: For
you as for your matrix,

The George Polya Prize honors the memory of George Polya and is given in
even-numbered years for notable contributions in two alternating
categories. The 2008 award will be given for a notable application of
combinatorial theory. The prize is broadly intended to recognize
specific recent work.

The award will be presented at the SIAM Annual Meeting to be held July 7
- 11, 2008, in San Diego, California. The award will consist of an
engraved medal and a $20,000 cash prize. Travel expenses to the award
ceremony will be provided by the prize fund.

Nominations, including a description of achievement(s), should be
addressed to Dr. Rolf Moehring, Chair, George Polya Prize and sent by
December 31, 2007, to J. M. Littleton at littleton@siam.org. Complete
calls for nominations for SIAM prizes can be found at
http://www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php. Inquiries should be
addressed to littleton@siam.org.

The W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize is awarded for research in, or other
contributions to, the broadly defined areas of differential equations
and control theory. The prize may be given either for a single notable
achievement or for a collection of such achievements. Committee Chair
H. T. Banks wishes to stress the breadth of the eligible fields.

The prize will be awarded at the SIAM Annual Meeting to be held July 7 -
11, 2008, in San Diego, California. The award consists of an engraved
medal and a $10,000 cash prize. The prize recipient is requested to
present a lecture at the meeting. SIAM will reimburse reasonable travel
expenses for the recipient to attend the meeting and give the lecture.

Nominations, including a description of achievement(s), should be
addressed to Professor H. T. Banks, Chair, W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize
Committee and sent by December 15, 2007, to J. M. Littleton at
littleton@siam.org. Inquiries should be addressed to
littleton@siam.org. Complete calls for nominations for SIAM prizes can
be found at www.siam.org/prizes/nominations.php.

* Enhanced loop schedules: Support aggressive compiler
optimizations of loop schedules and give programmers better
runtime control over the kind of schedule used.

* Nested parallelism support: better definition of and control
over nested parallel regions, and new API routines to determine
nesting structure

Larry Meadows, CEO of the OpenMP organization, states: "The creation of
OpenMP 3.0 has taken very hard work by a number of people over more than
two years. The introduction of a unified tasking model, allowing
creation and execution of unstructured work, is a great step forward for
OpenMP. It should allow the use of OpenMP on whole new classes of
computing problems."

The draft specification is available in PDF format from the
Specifications section of the OpenMP ARB website:

Mark Bull has led the effort to expand the applicability of OpenMP while
improving it for its current uses as the Chair of the OpenMP Language
Committee. He states: "The OpenMP language committee has done a fine job
in producing this latest version of OpenMP. It has been difficult to
resolve some tricky details and understand how tasks should propagate
across the language. But I think we have come up with solid solutions,
and the team should be proud of their accomplishment."

The ARB warmly welcomes any comments, corrections and suggestions you
have for Version 3.0. For Version 3.0, we are soliciting comments
through an on-line forum, located at http://www.openmp.org/forum. The
forum is entitled Draft 3.0 Public Comment. You can also send email to
feedback@openmp.org if you would rather not use the forum. It is most
helpful if you can refer to the page number and line number where
appropriate.

I'm pleased to offer KKTDirect, a public domain package for the
direct solution of a large class of saddle-point or "KKT" matrices
(symmetric indefinite problems arising in many application areas).

It is based on a new ordering constraint that is sufficient to
guarantee existence of the LDL^T factorization, and allows the solver
to predict in advance the signs of D, allowing near-Cholesky-like
performance.

The package includes a prototype minimum degree algorithm
incorporating the constraint, a post-processing algorithm for
arbitrary orderings, pointwise up-looking and supernodal left-looking
factorization/solution codes that retain the efficiency of modern
Cholesky codes for SPD matrices, and a simple MATLAB MEX interface.

The code along with a report describing the underlying theory and
numerical experiments are available from

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/kktdirect

This release is only alpha quality - in particular, some routines
require further optimization, and out-of-memory errors are not
handled gracefully - so use at your own risk.

We announce the release, as libre/free software, of revision 5.0.3 of the
SCOTCH and PT-SCOTCH software package and library for graph and
mesh/hypergraph partitioning, static mapping, and sequential and parallel
sparse matrix block ordering.

Revision 5.0.3 provides a ParMeTiS compatibility library which allows users
who are using the parallel graph ordering capabilities of ParMeTiS to try
PT-Scotch without having to modify their source code. Since PT-Scotch can
run on numbers of processors which are not powers of two, there are slight
changes in the values returned by the PT-Scotch implementation of the
ParMETIS_V3_NodeND() routine over the original implementation.

SCOTCH is a project carried out at the Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en
Informatique (LaBRI) of the Universite Bordeaux I.
It is part of project ScAlApplix of INRIA Futurs. Its goal is to apply graph
theory, with a ``divide and conquer'' approach, to scientific computing
problems such as graph partitioning, static mapping, and sparse matrix
ordering.

Scotch can be freely downloaded, under the terms of the CeCILL-C license.
To ease the development, diffusion, and circulation of information regarding
the SCOTCH project, most of its resources are now hosted on the InriaGforge
platform provided by INRIA. Please refer to the SCOTCH web page at :

http://www.labri.fr/~pelegrin/scotch/

for more information. People interested in the SCOTCH project are welcome to
subscribe to the "scotch-announces" mailing list at :

I want to inform you of release of new software product Portfolio Safeguard
(PSG), which can solve sophisticated stochastic optimization problems,
including problems with tail risk measures such as VaR and CVaR, probability
of exceeding (e.g. Default probability in finance), Drawdown, Omega and many
other measures of risk and deviation. PSG is designed to solve a wide range
of stochastic optimization problems arising in various areas of engineering;
it is particularly suited for finance applications.

PSG is a commercial package; however an academic-research version is
available. Please consider requesting an evaluation version of PSG at
www.aorda.com/main/psg.action. PSG includes a number of documented case
studies, which may serve as templates and can be modified/adjusted to your
needs.

In coordination with a distinguished Maxwell Institute
Colloquium give by Albert Cohen on Nov. 2nd at the
U. of Edinburgh School of Mathematics, the International
Centre for Mathematical Sciences will host a one day
meeting in which researchers of sparse approximation
from throughout the UK will assemble. Presentations
will be given by Mike Davies (U. of Edinburgh, EE),
Albert Cohen (U. of Paris VI, Math), Sofia Olhede
(U. College London, Statistics), Mark D. Plumbley
(Queen Mary, EE), Arieh Iserles (U. of Cambridge, DAMTP),
Laura Rebollo-Neira (Aston U., Information Eng.), and
Jared Tanner (U. of Edinburgh, Math). Further information
can be found at the conference website:
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/MIC/mic_07.html

Anyone who would like to attend this event should
contact the organizer (Jared.Tanner@ed.ac.uk) in order
to ensure that space is available.

Objective: The aim of the symposia on "Real Numbers and Computers" is
to bring together specialists from various research areas, all
concerned with problems related to computations based on real numbers.
These computations may use any number system implemented by a software
package or in hardware, including floating and fixed point, integers,
rational or p-adic numbers, serial or on-line computations, continued
fractions, fixed or multiple precision, interval and stochastic
arithmetic.

The conference will feature invited lectures and contributed talks.
Original research results and insightful analyses of current concerns
are solicited for submission. Survey and tutorial articles may be
suitable for submission if clearly identified as such.

Proceedings: Instructions for how to submit are posted on the website
of the conference. The proceedings will be distributed at the
conference and registered with an ISBN number. The journal Information
& Computation will publish a special issue following RNC8.

Competition: Following the competitions organized at the CCA2000
workshop (http://cca-net.de/cca2000/) and the TYPES workshop in 2005
(http://www.cs.ru.nl/fnds/typesreal/), a friendly competition will be
organized during the conference. A separate email will be sent
soon. Please visit the following web site. http://cfsp.univ-perp.fr/

This international workshop aims to be a forum for an exchange of
ideas, insights and experiences in different areas of parallel
computing in which matrix algorithms are employed. The Workshop will
bring together experts and practitioners from diverse disciplines with
a common interest in matrix computation. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to, the following:

The PMAA'08 will take place at the same time with the workshop of
ERCIM Working Group on "Computing & Statistics".

Authors are invited to submit an abstract presenting original research
on any aspect of the workshop themes. After the workshop, selected
peer-reviewed papers will be published in special issues of Parallel
Computing and Applied Numerical Mathematics.

Important dates:
Submission of 1-page abstracts: 30 April 2008
Acceptance decision: 7 May 2008
Workshop: 20-22 June 2008
Submission of full papers: 30 July 2008
Notification of decision: 15 November 2008
Final papers: 30 January 2009

Announcing a workshop to help the community prepare for its response to
the new NSF program entitled CDI: Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation.
Information (thrusts, budgets etc.) about the new program is available at
the following URLs.
http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2008/pdf/39_fy2008.pdf
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm

Starting with an approx. budget of $50 million for 2008, it is expected to
grow to about $250 million in 5 years. To quote Ian Foster, "the new
Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program, announced as beginning
in 2008, seems to be a worthy successor" to ITR.

Details about the workshop: The workshop will be held on Saturday, Nov. 3
from 1 p.m. - 7 p.m. in the Virginia room of the Sheraton (the site of the
INFORMS conference). In addition to NSF program officers, there will be
other speakers who have been successful with ITR and similar NSF programs.
We hope that the community will take advantage of this opportunity
to learn about CDI thrusts, and form teams that will lead to successful
proposals to this new program.

The Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC) will be hosted
by the Australian National University on the 13th-16th of July 2008. As a
special event CTAC08 will also be honouring Prof. Ian Sloan on his 70th birthday.

Authors are expected to submit a paper in the PDF format with 5-10
keywords following the IEEE CS format
(http://www.icmc.usp.br/~cse08/submission.html). Program committee
members and external reviewers will provide authors with at least
three technical reviews. Submitted papers will be ranked based on
relevance to the Conference and technical merit. Final version of
accepted papers should at most 8 pages and will be published by IEEE
Computer Society Press as CSE-08 conference proceedings. Authors of
accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register
and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will
be removed from the IEEE Digital Library after the conference.
Selected best papers will be awarded and also considered for a special
issue of International Journal of Computational Science and
Engineering (IJCSE) and International Journal of High Performance
Computing and Networking (IJHPCN).

Workshop Proposals: We encourage researches to submit their workshop
proposals (according to the guidelines available at
http://www.icmc.usp.br/~cse08/submission.html) in any one of the areas
listed in the Scope (below) to cse08@icmc.usp.br with the subject
"CSE-08 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".

Objectives of the Conference: The EURO-CBBM Conference is organized by
the EURO Working Group on Operational Research in Computational
Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine. The objective of the conference
is to bring together researchers developing and using computational
methods to solve problems in computational biology, bioinformatics and
medicine. The conference intends to be an effective forum for the
exchange of ideas and for the discussion of current research issues
and future trends.

The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the
University of Minnesota announces membership opportunities in
connection with its 2008-2009 thematic program on

Mathematics and Chemistry

This subject involves many interesting challenges for scientific
computation and numerical linear algebra. Individuals may apply
for four classes of membership at the IMA in connection with
the 2008-2009 thematic program:

IMA POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS provide an excellent opportunity for
mathematical scientists near the beginning of their career who have
a background in and/or an interest in learning about research topics
on the interface of mathematics and chemistry. IMA postdoctoral
fellowships run one to two years, at the option of the holder,
starting September 1, 2008. In the second year of the appointment
there are a variety of options to enhance career development,
including participation in the 2009-2010 academic year program
at the IMA on Complex Fluids and Complex Flows, teaching, and working on
an industrial
project. Postdoctoral fellows receive a salary of $50,000 annually,
and a travel allowance. Documentation of completion of all
requirements for a doctoral degree in mathematics or a related area is
required by the start of the appointment and within the last three
years. (application deadline January 5, 2008)

IMA INDUSTRIAL POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS are designed to prepare
mathematicians for research careers in industry or involving
industrial interaction. IMA industrial postdoctoral fellowships run
two years starting September 1, 2008. They are funded jointly by the
IMA and an industrial sponsor, and holders devote 50% effort to their
own research and the IMA program and 50% effort working with
industrial scientists. Industrial postdoctoral fellows receive a
salary of $50,000 annually, and a travel allowance. Documentation of
completion of all requirements for a doctoral degree in mathematics or
a related area is required by the start of the appointment and within
the last three years. (application deadline January 5, 2008)

IMA GENERAL MEMBERSHIPS provide an opportunity for mathematicians and
scientists employed elsewhere to spend a period of one month to one
year in residence at the IMA, and to participate in the 2008-2009
thematic program. The residency should fall in the period September
2008 through June 2009 (in special cases extending into the summer
months). Logistic support such as office space, computer facilities,
and secretarial support will be provided, and local expenses may be
provided. Preference will be given to supplementary support for
persons with sabbatical leaves, fellowships, or other stipends. The
research interests of General Members must relate to the thematic
program and a doctoral degree is normally expected. Applications may
be submitted at any time until the end of the thematic program, and
will be considered as long as funds remain available. (applications
considered immediately and until funds are exhausted)

IMA NEW DIRECTIONS RESEARCH PROFESSORSHIPS provide an extraordinary
opportunity for established mathematicians -- typically mid-career
faculty at US universities -- to branch into new directions and
increase the impact of their research by spending the 2008-2009
academic year immersed in the thematic program at the IMA. Visiting
Professors will enjoy an excellent research environment and
stimulating scientific program connecting chemistry
with a broad range of mathematical fields. New Directions
Research Professors are expected to be resident and active
participants in the program but are not assigned formal duties. The
New Directions program will supply 50% of academic year salary up to
$50,000 maximum. Applications must include a letter from the
applicant's department chair indicating that the home institution will
provide a minimum of 50% of academic year salary and all health and
other relevant fringe benefits. (application deadline January 15, 2008)

All IMA members are provided with an excellent and extremely
stimulating research environment and connection with a large community
of first class researchers. The IMA is a national institute whose
mission is to increase the impact of mathematics by fostering research
of a truly interdisciplinary nature, linking mathematics of the
highest caliber and important scientific and technological problems
from other disciplines and industry. Allied with this mission, the IMA
also aims to expand and strengthen the talent base engaged in
mathematical research applied to or relevant to such problems. It was
founded in 1982 and receives its primary funding from the National
Science Foundation.

Application forms and instructions are available at
www.ima.umn.edu/docs/ . More information on the IMA is available at
www.ima.umn.edu, and information on the 2008-2009 thematic program is
at www.ima.umn.edu/2008-2009 . Questions may be directed to
applications@ima.umn.edu for postdoctoral fellowships and general
membership applications or to ndprof@ima.umn.edu for New Directions
professorships.

The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer.

The Innovative Computing Lab (ICL, http://icl.cs.utk.edu/) of the University
of Tennessee is looking for a bright, motivated person to join as a staff
researcher. The applicant would be expected to join existing projects in
computational science, as well as showing initiative in pursuing new
research directions. Current computational science projects in ICL address
the integration of numerical algorithms and state-of-the-art hardware, with
an emphasis on parallel programming, multi-core, distributed computing and
performance optimization.

The position involves numerical linear algebra (dense, sparse, direct, and
iterative methods), numerical analysis and scientific programming. Proven
experience with C and Fortran 77, parallel programming with experience with
the use of high-performance architectures and algorithms as well as
performance optimization are required. Knowledge of C++ and/or Fortran95 is
a plus.

Excellent oral and written communication skills are mandatory. A willingness
to participate in a highly diverse, multi-disciplinary environment is also
essential. Degree requirements: (1) Ph.D. in Computer Sciences or related
area with demonstrable background in numerical mathematics, in particular
linear system solving and eigenvalue calculations; or (2) M.S. in Computer
Sciences and 3-5 years relevant research or work experience.

Applications are invited for one tenure-track assistant professor
position, to begin in the fall semester of 2008. Applicants must have
a Ph.D., provide evidence of outstanding research, and have a strong
commitment to teaching at all levels. While preference will be given
to applicants in computational mathematics, applicants in all areas of
applied mathematics are encouraged. The Department of Mathematics
offers an active doctoral program in computational and applied
mathematics. Visit http://www.smu.edu/math for more information about
the department.

To apply, send a letter of application with a curriculum vitae, a list
of publications, research and teaching statements and the names of
three references to: The Faculty Search Committee, Department of
Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, P.O. Box 750156, Dallas,
Texas, 75275-0156. The Search Committee can be contacted by sending
e-mail to mathsearch@mail.smu.edu. (Tel: (214)768-2452; Fax:
(214)768-2355).

To ensure full consideration for the position, the application must be
received by December 7, 2007, but the committee will continue to accept
applications until the position is filled. The committee will notify
applicants of its employment decision after the position is filled.

SMU, a private university with an engineering school, is situated in a quiet
residential section of Dallas. SMU will not discriminate on the basis
of race,color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability or veteran
status. SMU is also committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation.

Department of Mathematics, Baruch College, City University of New York

The department of mathematics at Baruch College invites applications for
one or more tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor positions, depending
upon qualifications, beginning September 2008. In addition to strong
undergraduate teaching skills, the applicant is expected to participate in
the Financial Engineering Masters Program at Baruch College.

More information about our small, but elite MFE program can be found at
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/math/masters.html

A Ph.D. in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics or related field is required
along with a demonstrated commitment to research. First priority will be
given to applicants whose research area is in Numerical Analysis. We will
also consider applicants whose research is in one or more of the following
areas: mathematical finance, probability, or partial differential
equations.

Baruch College is one of the City University of New York's senior colleges,
housing the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and
Sciences, and the School of Public Affairs. It has approximately 15,000
undergraduate and graduate students in its three schools, and is an
AA/EO/IRCA/ADA employer. Send an AMS cover sheet, curriculum vitae, at
least three letters of reference, at most two reprints/preprints, and short
statements describing approach to teaching and research plans to:

The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of
Manchester is advertising two RCUK Fellowships in the areas of
Complexity, Modelling and Computation for the 21st Century.
These are prestigious 5-year positions with limited teaching and administration
responsibilities, leading to a permanent academic position.

I encourage applications in scientific computing.
Further details can be found at

Applications are invited for one tenure track assistant professorship
beginning Fall 2008. We are seeking an exceptionally well-qualified
individual with research interests compatible with those in the department.
All areas of pure and applied mathematics will be considered. Candidates
must have a PhD in the mathematical sciences, an outstanding research
program, a commitment to effective teaching at the undergraduate and
graduate levels and demonstrated potential for excellence in both research
and teaching. She or he will likely have had successful post-doctoral
experience. The Department of Mathematics has strong research programs
in both pure and applied mathematics. Many members of the department
participate in interdisciplinary programs and research groups on campus and
in the broader Research Triangle community. More information about the
department can be found at http://www.math.ncsu.edu.

To submit your application materials, go to www.mathjobs.org/jobs/ncsu.
Include a vita, at least three letters of recommendation, and a
description of current and planned research.
You will then be given instructions to go to
http://jobs.ncsu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=77885
and complete a Faculty Profile for the position.

Write to math-jobs@math.ncsu.edu for questions concerning this position.

NC State University is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Employer. In addition, NC State welcomes all persons without regard to
sexual orientation. The College of Physical and Mathematical sciences
welcomes the opportunity to work with candidates to
identify suitable employment opportunities for spouses or partners.
Applications received by December 15, 2007 will be given priority.

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
invites applications from exceptionally qualified candidates in all
areas of Computer Science for faculty positions at the ranks of
Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Instructor.
The University of Chicago has the highest standards for scholarship
and faculty quality, and encourages collaboration across disciplines.

The Chicago metropolitan area provides a diverse and exciting
environment. The local economy is vigorous, with international
stature in banking, trade, commerce, manufacturing, and
transportation, while the cultural scene includes diverse cultures,
vibrant theater, world-renowned symphony, opera, jazz, and blues.
The University is located in Hyde Park, a pleasant Chicago
neighborhood on the Lake Michigan shore.

Complete applications consist of (a) a curriculum vitae, including a
list of publications, (b) forward-looking research and teaching
statements. Complete applications for Assistant Professor and
Instructor positions also require (c) three letters of
recommendation, sent to
recommend-077714@mailman.cs.uchicago.edu or to the above postal
address, including one that addresses teaching ability. Applicants
must have completed, or will soon complete, a doctorate degree. We
will begin screening applications on December 15, 2007. Screening
will continue until all available positions are filled. The
University of Chicago is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer.

The European Center of Time-Frequency Analysis (at NuHAG, Faculty of
Mathematics, University of Vienna), funded by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant
FP6-517154 (2005-2009), anticipates one or two postdoctoral positions for the
second half of its activities. We are searching for excellent candidates in
the field of applied or computational harmonic analysis, joining for one up
to two years. NuHAG is especially looking for qualified female candidates.
Starting date: January 2008. The position is open until it is filled by a
suitable candidate.

The University of Vienna, and especially NuHAG, is offering a vivid
and inspiring research envirnoment (see http://www.nuhag.eu/), with
about 10 active researchers in the field of time-frequency analysis
(local staff, PostDocs, projectcoworkers) and a comparable number of
PhD students. Candidates are asked to contact Hans G. Feichtinger
(hans.feichtinger@univie.ac.at) but also to register at the NuHAG
web-site http://www.univie.ac.at/nuhag-php/registration/ as "PostDoc",
providing their standard personal informations (including CV +
publication list).

The Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) Division at Argonne National
Laboratory invites outstanding candidates to apply for a postdoctoral
position focusing on the development of optimal active thermochemical
tables. Active thermochemical tables are a novel paradigm that provides
scientists with internally consistent thermochemistry at an unprecedented
scale of reliability and accuracy. The successful candidate will work as
part of a multidisciplinary research team involving chemists and
computational scientists at Argonne. The project team will develop robust
solvers and novel optimization models for the underlying data-fitting
problem. The appointment will be in the MCS Division, which has strong
programs in scientific computing, software tools, and computational
mathematics. Candidates should have a background in one or more of the
following: numerical analysis, optimization, linear algebra, scientific
computing, and Fortran or C. Experience with the development of nonlinear
and integer optimization techniques is a plus.

A detailed job description and application requirements are available at
http://www.anl.gov/jobsearch/detail.jsp?userreqid=312520+MCS&lsBrowse=POSTDOC
Questions can be addressed to Sven Leyffer <leyffer@mcs.anl.gov>.

A U.S. Department of Energy laboratory managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC.
Argonne is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity in our
workforce.

The Department of Mathematics at North Carolina State University expects to
make a postdoctoral appointment in the area of electronic structure
computations
on the next generation of high-performance computers. We seek candidates
with
experience in at least one of multi-level methods for linear and nonlinear
equations or eigenvalue problems, or DFT methods for electronic structure
computations on high-performance computing platforms.

To submit your application materials, go to

www.mathjobs.org/jobs/ncsu.

Include a Cover letter, curriculum vita, a brief description of
research interests and three letters of recommendation. You will
then be given instructions to go to

https://jobs.ncsu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=78465

and complete a Faculty Profile for the position. Write to

C. T. Kelley at tim_kelley@ncsu.edu for inquiries concerning this position.

AA/EEO In addition, NC State welcomes all persons without regard to sexual
orientation. Effective April 1, 2007 final candidates for employment
will be subject to criminal and sex offender background checks. The
College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences welcomes the opportunity
to work with candidates to identify suitable employment for spouses
or partners. Applications will be received until the position is filled.

The Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the
University of Texas at Austin is now accepting applications for
Postdoctoral Fellow positions for the academic year beginning in the
fall of 2008. The ICES Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers one-year
fellowship awards for exceptional computational scientists,
mathematicians, and engineers who have recently completed doctoral
studies in areas relevant to research conducted at the Institute.
Fellowship stipends are $60,000 per year. In addition, fellows receive
UT employee benefits and relocation expenses. U.S. citizens are
especially sought, but foreign scholars may also be considered.

Emory seeks the best and brightest young scholars for a
prestigious appointment, the CLS Independent Career Development
Postdoctoral Fellowship. These will be three-year appointments
with unparalleled independence and generous resources.
The fellowship starts at $50,000 per year and includes up
to $25,000 in discretionary research funds depending on the
area of investigation.

Form more information, see:
http://cls.emory.edu/CLS%20Postdoc%20Ad.pdf

The Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe are
joining forces to form the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and
are integrating their research activities both structurally and
strategically. Within the framework of the Excellence Initiative
several new research groups are established.

addresses innovative research topics dedicated to the deployment of
multicore and coprocessor technology in high performance computing and
numerical simulation. Multicore and coprocessor technologies
currently represent the main development stream for compute server
architectures in high performance computing. A primary challenge
relies on the ability to exploit the extreme computing power
associated to multicore architectures for highly CPU time-consuming
applications in scientific computing.

The shared research group consists of a group leader (junior
professor) and two research assistants. It is funded as part of the
cooperation between KIT and the company of Hewlett Packard (HP).

For this shared research group the position of a

Research assistant / Ph.D. student (E13 TV-L)

at the Steinbuch Centre for Computing is to be filled for a period of
four years at the earliest possible date. Ideal candidates have

- very good academic records
- completed masters or equivalent degree in applied mathematics or
computer science
- experience in numerical simulation
- interest in conducting Ph.D. research in an interdisciplinary area at
the interface of
scientific computing and computer architecture
- interest in a close cooperation with the industrial partner HP
- very good proficiency in English

To increase the number of women involved in science and technology,
female applicants are specifically encouraged. Handicapped applicants
will have higher preference in case of equal qualifications.

Applications should comprise a letter of motivation, a CV,
undergraduate and graduate transcripts and any other information that
prove a high academic aptitude. If available please include contact
information of references and test scores (such as TOEFL). Please send
your application (preferably by email using PDF) to the following
address:

Inspired by last week's poetic submissions by Tim Davis and
M.Bartholomew-Biggs, I invite the readers of NA-Digest to submit entries
to the Numerical Analysis Haiku project, begun by Paul Tupper and me in
2001.

To liven up matters, I hereby announce the First Numerical Analysis Haiku
Prize, to be awarded in February 2008. The entry needs to be a poem in
the Japanese lyric form, having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and
five syllables,traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.
The requirement that a season be mentioned is relaxed. Entries need to
reach me by Jan 15. 2008.

The lucky winner will receive prize monies equivalent to the price of
their favorite pizza in their place of residence.

Haiku is a form of non-rhyming Japanese poetry whose form in
English often consists of 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, typically with a
pause in the middle to split a comparison or contrast. Classical Haiku
invokes Nature or one of the Seasons. So for this week's NA Digest,
where it's still Summer here in Florida, enjoy a numerically resonant
high-Q: